"All the worse for wear" nghĩa là gì?


"All the worse for wear" -> nghĩa là hỏng hóc, xuống cấp trong quá trình sử dụng, cũng dùng để miêu tả ai đó sau quãng thời gian chịu đựng khó khăn về tinh thần hoặc thể xác. 

Ví dụ
As captain, Robbo organised (tổ chức) the parties more or less. He sorted one out where we were going to a comedy club in Oldham, then onto a party in Haydock. We all piled on to the club coach – a beautiful coach – there were beers had and we were soon all the worse for wear. There’s a bridge that you’ve got to go over to reach the club and Derek, the driver, says to Bryan: “I’m not going to get the coach over the bridge, Bryan. It won’t fit (vừa vặn).”

She watches as someone in a parka finds her secret door and enters. As the man descends down the stairs she clocks him with the butt of her rifle. But it's Simon, looking all the worse for wear after two years of walking through the zombie apocalypse (tàn lụi) to get back to his family. In an incredibly cute moment, Kaya introduces their toddler (con nhỏ) JZ, aka Junior Z, to his daddy.

The Port of Galilee is an economic engine for Rhode Island, bringing in $66 million in seafood last year and supporting 200 commercial fishermen and other businesses in the fishing industry. But Rhode Island’s largest fishing port has been looking the worse for wear for a long time now. Bulkheads are rotting (mục nát), piers are sagging (lún) and asphalt is crumbling (vỡ vụn).

She was feeling and looking the worse for wear after her boozy (say sưa) night out and wanted to go to sleep to recover. She wasn’t happy they didn’t vacate the room quickly enough for her so she went to the en-suite shouting and punched the mirror.

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